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Help Pass US Legislation Against Harming Children

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About ECPAT-USA

graffiti child (photo: Eduardo Davad for Pixabay)‟ECPAT-USA is the leading anti-child trafficking organization in the United States, seeking to end the commercial sexual exploitation of children through awareness, advocacy, policy and legislation. ECPAT-USA is a member of ECPAT International, a network of organizations in more than 100 countries with one...

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HRC45: High Commissioner Report on Racially-Inspired Human Rights Violations

As reported in the June UN Liaison Bulletin, following an urgent debate on racially-inspired human rights violations, systemic racism, police brutality and violent responses to peaceful protests, the Council mandated the High Commissioner to develop a report on “systemic racism, violations of international human rights law against Africans and people of African descent by law enforcement agencies, especially those incidents...

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Combatting Child Trafficking Misinformation

by Anne Manos, AAWE Paris

Since July, the hashtag #SavetheChildren, created by the UK-based charity Save the Children to fund a campaign combatting child trafficking worldwide, has flooded social media. Interactions with the hashtag have multiplied by five, posts and statistics concerning child trafficking went viral, and rallies were held demonstrating support for the cause.

QAnon betterThe sudden outburst of concern...

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ERA – Where Does Your US Candidate Stand on Women’s Rights?

by Pam Perraud (AAWE Paris, FAUSA), FAWCO’s Representative on the US Women’s Caucus at the UN

Currently, the ERA remains an unfulfilled and unresolved issue for every American woman. The League of Women Voters US along with the Center for Women in Politics of Rutgers University, both non-profit, non-partisan organizations, have compiled a list of where House and Senate candidates stand on the...

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Time for Change

Hari Kitching, AWC London, Human Rights Team member, shares a video and information about the London Black Lives Matter protests:

For many people, social, economic and human rights injustices are a part of everyday life and people continue to suffer as a result of unconscious biases in our society.

The death of George Floyd on May 25, 2020 at the...

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FAWCO Member Asma Darwish: A Bahraini Human Rights Defender, a Global Citizen and a Refugee

June 20 is World Refugee Day

 

AAWE member Asma Darwish, a member of the Human Rights Team and the FAWCO Refugee Network, shared her story during the Human Rights Team's monthly virtual call. 

 

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Here is her story, taken from the meeting notes:

Asma, who is a Bahraini citizen who has been granted refugee status and is residing in...

FAWCO Refugee Network

 

Mission Statement:

The FAWCO Refugee Network (FRN) weaves the threads of our amazing FAWCO sisterhood of global citizens to inspire each other, share resources and to directly collaborate across club borders in support of the new neighbors in our communities who have arrived from distant and often dangerous places to begin new lives. 

We do this in the spirit...

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